Get Simple Steps For Weight Loss By Bela W<

Simple Steps for Weight Loss #1: Set Realistic Goals

Don’t discourage yourself by setting unrealistic weight loss goals before you even start your weight loss program. If you ask yourself some simple questions then you will be able to lead your efforts into the right direction: What are you looking to achieve with this weight loss program? How much weight do you want to lose in a day, a week and a month? Try to keep in mind that each small goal you achieve will push you closer towards your final destination. But if you set unrealistic goals, then you will only be sabotaging and frustrating yourself to the point that you won’t be celebrating the results you are achieving. Don’t push for results too fast.

Cutting Calories Without County Calories By Susan Young The one rule I set for myself at the beginning of this journey was NO MORE DIETS!  Here I am starting week three with the gals at DailyBread365 and the topic of today’s thought (Day 22) is cutting calories!  I almost skipped it entirely but knowing Lucy’s dedication a healthy lifestyle, I jumped in and gave the article a closer look.  Sure enough, Lucy is not advocating getting on the merry-go-round scale or measuring and weighing each bite of food.  She is merely reaffirming common tenants that some types of food contain higher caloric content and are more easily converted to fat storage. Today’s “lesson” touches briefly on  the difference between essential and non-essential fats, refined or processed foods, and the dangers of filling up on empty calories. Good information to recall, even when you are NOT dieting, like me. If you have read my previous posts you will know that I am working on changing my whole life experience.  I am using self-hypnosis books, tapes and videos to reprogram myself to see food and exercise in a different light. I have spent a lifetime using food as a substitute for other things I thought were missing in my life.  Food was love.  Food was affirmation.  Food was comfort.  Food was entertainment. Now, I have come to realize that food is fuel.  Fuel to accomplish the tasks I need and choose to do each day. Another pattern of thinking that I am working on changing is my attitude about exercise.  As a child, young adult, and middle age women, I saw exercise as work, punishment, torture, the enemy, or something other people did. Now, I am learning to find health and well-being as rewarding incentives to exercise.  I am learning to appreciate the improved mobility and strength that are the results of a few hours a week of activity. I’m not all the way there, where ever there might be but I am progressing nicely along the path to a healthier, stronger and fitter body and lifestyle.

Weight Loss – It’s in Your Head By Helene Haber

When you truly consider the weight-loss process, the battle waged is mostly in your mind. “Should I eat the corn muffin with butter or would it be better for me to have margarine or better yet, have jelly? What am I doing eating this muffin anyway? It’s so caloric and filled with saturated fat. I’m such a pig. I have absolutely zero willpower.” It’s no wonder you’ll eat that muffin with the butter and slather jelly on top to quiet that negative self-talk.

Day 12 in my journey through DailyBread365 brings me back to a familiar tactic I first encountered in Paul McKenna‘s TV program, I Can Make You Thin. 

Sometimes called visualization, the idea behind this exercise is that what we see in our head, we bring into being. It may sound a bit new age to some, but to me it fit very well in to my age-old belief system, which called it faith. 

I remember learning many years ago that faith is believing without seeing but I always thought of  it as  seeing something before it was visible to the human eye.